Sentence examples for a widescreen image from inspiring English sources
Adjustable aspect ratio settings mean we must constantly contend with issues such as stretching, smart zooming, errant subtitles, HDMI-mode toggling, "letterboxing" (horizontal black bars above and below a widescreen image), "pillarboxing" (vertical black bars either side of an older, square-formatted image) and even the dreaded "windowboxing" (both letterboxing and pillarboxing at same time).
And a widescreen image fits better if you're doing things in full-screen as well, since nobody has 4 3 screens any more except iPad owners, and they can't do video chat.
Whether they composed for that, I don't know (i.e. you might be able to see the edge of the set on the full 35mm frame), but either way it should be a widescreen image.
The directors felt that a widescreen image was crucial, as a nostalgic reference to old action-adventure films presented in the CinemaScope format (2.35:1), noting Raiders of the Lost Ark as an inspiration.
Meanwhile cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi shoots "entirely and proudly" on 35mm Kodak film, enriching the retro feel with a handsome widescreen image that oozes aching nostalgia.
Two nude men posed in the ruins of an ancient house, the widescreen image of a dog amid the stone and rubble of a desolate street, even a closeup of a person's rear end squeezed on a chair, dispels the sense of reportage in two contradictory directions — the abstract aestheticism of texture and the symbolic psychology of fantasy, materialist hyperrealism and reverberant surrealism.
The origins of the widescreen image can be traced to "Napoleon," which also featured hand-held camerawork, eye-blink-fast editing, gorgeous tints, densely layered superimpositions and images shot from a pendulum, a sled, a bicycle and a galloping horse.
Well, on one level, TV clearly has improved, with the move toward the rectangular 16x9 widescreen image meaning that modern TV dramas no longer need look 'boxy' or 'cropped', a long-standing aesthetic barrier.
Oshima's vision of societal rot and family cruelty is rooted in a lofty cinematic irony; his widescreen images of cities, small towns, and rural landscapes have a soft-brushed, splashily colorful allure that contrasts appallingly with the film's intimate degradations.
A Mediterranean cruise, bright sunshine, in black and white widescreen images unlike anything I'd ever seen — so precisely composed, accentuating and expressing... what?
Alverson films the Comedian's lonely tour in the California desert with poised widescreen images that lend his grubby wanderings the mythic grandeur of a classic Western.
